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ReviewCommunications biology2024

More than double the fun with two-photon excitation microscopy.

Peter Luu, Scott E Fraser, Falk Schneider

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Review in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
37.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Live imaging of vascular dynamics in mouse skin.The Journal of investigative dermatology · 2026
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  10. A dual-color miniature endoscope for calcium imaging in behaving mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  12. OPTRACE: Optical Imaging-Guided Transplantation and Tracking of Cells in the Mouse Brain.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  17. Descattering and image restoration with a transformer-based neural network in deep tissue imaging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter LuuTranslational Imaging Center, Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Scott E FraserTranslational Imaging Center, Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5377-0223
Falk SchneiderTranslational Imaging Center, Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA. falkschn@usc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0502-9139
University of Southern California · US

Funding

Circuits underlying threat and safetyUF1NS122082 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ARNOLD, DONALD B, FRASER, SCOTT E · 2021 to 2021
$4.7M
Whole-Brain Functional Imaging and Analysis of Zebrafish SleepUF1NS126562 · NINDS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GOODHILL, GEOFFREY J, PROBER, DAVID AARON · 2022 to 2023
$3.4M
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) ALTF 849-2020Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) LT000404/2021-LHuman Frontier Science Program (HFSP) RPG0008/2017NINDS NIH HHS UF1 NS122082NINDS NIH HHS UF1 NS126562U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1U01NS122082-01U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1U01NS126562-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For generations researchers have been observing the dynamic processes of life through the lens of a microscope. This has offered tremendous insights into biological phenomena that span multiple orders of time- and length-scales ranging from the pure magic of molecular reorganization at the membrane of immune cells, to cell migration and differentiation during development or wound healing. Standard fluorescence microscopy techniques offer glimpses at such processes in vitro, however, when applied in intact systems, they are challenged by reduced signal strengths and signal-to-noise ratios that result from deeper imaging. As a remedy, two-photon excitation (TPE) microscopy takes a special place, because it allows us to investigate processes in vivo, in their natural environment, even in a living animal. Here, we review the fundamental principles underlying TPE aimed at basic and advanced microscopy users interested in adopting TPE for intravital imaging. We focus on applications in neurobiology, present current trends towards faster, wider and deeper imaging, discuss the combination with photon counting technologies for metabolic imaging and spectroscopy, as well as highlight outstanding issues and drawbacks in development and application of these methodologies.

Indexed as

Intravital MicroscopyMicroscopy, Fluorescence, MultiphotonAnimalsMicroscopy, FluorescencePhotonsSpectrum Analysis

Identifiers

PMID38531976
PMCPMC10966063
OpenAlexW4393195650

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